Antecedents and Consequences of Massive Open Online Courses Adoption: A Structural Model in the Indian Context

摘要

In today’s scenario learning via online media is becoming an essential part of everyone’s life. Whether learning is for the purpose of work or for academic pursuits, this way of learning has shown a growing importance. Online learning is adopted more these days comparedto traditional teaching as it gives better and convenient opportunities of learning with more sophistication and accessibility. All available communication mediums should be explored for enhancing learning techniques and ways. This paper describes technology based Massive Open Online Courses,their adoption, and learning effectiveness. A multivariate technique structural equation modeling was used to examine the antecedents and consequences of Massive Open Online Courses adoption in the Indian context. This paper also describes the parameters which need to be optimized while adoptinge-learning modules.